Music makes me dance in my chair

Yup, you heard me. Music makes me dance in my chair, at the office. And sometimes I make hand movements. And when I get really rambunctious, I throw my arms up in the air. Usually that fun little move is reserved for when I'm the only one at the office, but not always.

So as I think I've mentioned previously this week, I have NOT been working out. This week has been crazy busy with work and getting ready to go to California for the next week. I didn't really think I missed it, until I put on my headphones and started listening to my most recent and most favorite workout play list. (Thanks to my friend Megan for her "Mixed Tape" of great music) Man, I hate not working out for this long a period of time. It's been almost a full 2 weeks since I've been to the gym. That's disgusting. I had all these big plans for yesterday, but then there was too much to do at home in preparation for vacation. I can't wait to get out of here and have nothing to worry about, even if it is only for a week, so maybe I can start working out again.

I have all these amazing images of myself running through my parents neighborhood, listening to my ipod, just feeling the road.... yeah, it's probably not going to be as glorious as my imagination makes it look, but still, I can't wait.

Sweet Nector of the Gods

This afternoon at work we had a Christmas party. Whose brilliant idea was it to have everyone bring in Greek food, you might ask? Well that was MY great idea!! Yes, the food was amazing and in great supply. WHY is it that I overeat whenever I am eating somewhere other than my house? Interesting or completely absurd? Yeah, I say the latter of the two as well. But I loves me so greek food, so I ate. The food itself wasn't so bad, it was the small slice of pecan pie I had after and the bag of sweet chex mix that I also partake of and the bag of homemade toffee that I plan on partaking of later tonight. Ahhhh..... I hate the freaking holidays.


And kinda love them all at the same time.

Christmas Challenge: Week 12 Weigh In and Rants

Well holy crap ladies, it has been a rough ride these last few weeks. I am STRUGGLING to get back to eating clean and healthy, especially when my friend gives me a whole bag of homemade toffee and I worked until 9 without dinner. Oops, the bag is gone. I ate the WHOLE thing in one day! My weigh in was pitiful. I lost .2 lbs last week. And to be quite honest, I'm shocked that I did even that! It'd been a week full of chocolate covered nuts and other office goodies. This week has been a little better, except for the aforementioned bag of toffee. Although I haven't been able to get to the gym because I've been at work until 10 the past 2 nights. And it looks like tonight will be a repeat performance. But tomorrow, just wait, tomorrow I will hit the gym hard. I haven't been lifting as regularly as I used to. It's been a good 2 weeks since I did and that makes me sick. So tomorrow night, it's on.

Now let me explain why my workouts have been scarce the last week. Not only am I working late, but my husband finished the semester so he doesn't have to do homework every night. Which means he's home and available to play! Sure we don't really do anything, but I really like him and like spending time with him. During the semester, I don't really see him. He goes to the print lab just about every night and doesn't get home until about 10. So now that he's home for a few weeks, I want to see him as much as possible. Sure that could be an excuse to not workout, but I think it's a legitimate one.

On Saturday my husband and I are going home, to my home, Southern California, to visit my parents. We will be there until the 31st, and I am a wee bit panicked about eating healthy and especially working out. My mom has been doing Weight Watchers for EVER so the food options aren't really that bad, but our neighbors bring goodies over and I'm out of my controlled environment, so it's hard. I'm hoping my Gold's gym membership will be good in CA, so I can go to the gym while I'm there. I have big plans of waking up and going to the gym first thing. We'll see if that happens.

Christmas Challenge: Week 11 Weigh In

Another one bites the dust! One pound lost this last week. Not sure how that happened, given that I didn't eat very well or workout that much this week, but I'm pretty happy about it!

The beauty of smaller jeans!

Feast your eyes on my fat thighs! HA! They kinda look bigger than I want them to, but that's the purpose of this whole thing right?! But here's the size 12 jeans purchased this weekend.

Christmas Challenge: Week 10 Weigh In

Down .2!HA!.2 That's ridiculous, according to my brother. But it's something! So I'll take it. And to top it all off, I bought my first pair of size 12 jeans since I was a senior in high school. That's 10 years that I have been bigger than a size 12! This is BIG news people!! I didn't even have an "skinny pants" in that size. My skinny size was a 14. That feels pretty freaking cool, if I do say so myself.